Rolling Stone (7/8-7/22/99, p.148) - 4 stars (out of 5) - "...LIVRO is a fresh, fearless collection that balances ideas and sonics, art-song and pop sport, street hummability and academic achievment, Tropicalia guts and Antonio Jobim grace..." Spin (5/99, pp.148-150) - 7 (out of 8) - "...LIVRO is a kitchen-sink recapitulation of Veloso's career to date....the self-congratulatory, genre-bending love songs of an intellectually agile city-slicker with deep country roots." Entertainment Weekly (6/4/99, p.87) - "...Veloso is artfully all over the map here, with...coiling energy..." - Rating: A Alternative Press (10/99, p.113) - 4 out of 5 - "...a textbook illustration of how [Tropicalia] is done, with its fluid and deft mixture of Latin and techno rhythms, soulful crooning, Portuguese rap, big-band horn charts, contemporary classical dissonance, and electrical acoustic guitars..." Magnet (8-9/99, pp.94-5) - "...LIVRO is a collection of songs that capture's a lifetime's worth of experience in an hour's worth of blissful listening."

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